Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Table of Contents - 1954 - Volume 16, Issue 01  

Articles

Vīs-u-Rāmīn—III

V. Minorsky

In my articles on Fakhr al-dīn Gurgānl's poem Vīs-u-Rāmīn 1 I made a point of its realistic geographical and historical background which, in my opinion, connects it with the Arsacid tradition. One of the important places in the story is the castle of Gūrāb in which the heroine Vis was kept and which belonged to the family of her future rival Gul. Muslim geographers still referred to this place lying at the junction of the roads from Hamadān and Nihāvand to Karaj, and Gūrāb is mentioned in the course of the military operations of the Seljuk Sulxs1E0Dān Mas'ūd (towards 541/1146), see Rāxs1E25al al-xs1E63udūr, 242. In more recent times its titles to distinction had been forgotten.

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